mesa-users] strange radius

[jingluan <jin...@ca...>]

Hello :-)

I run a one-solar-mass star and print the s% R(k)/(7*10**10), (s% 
mlt_mixing_length(k))/(7*10**10), (s% mlt_mixing_length(k))/(s% 
scale_height(k)), here is a sample of the output at the beginning of the run

      8.0738873839706695       0.44332401385765779        
138958140368.74124
      8.0718427816721459       0.44463429001342880        
138957723368.84402
      8.0697921319668957       0.44594916505956783        
138957729700.33823
      8.0677354208661853       0.44726719350617850        
138957765906.98047
      8.0656726249463055       0.44858946730054233        
138957436889.61722

7*10**10 cm is the solar radius.

1, Why could R(k) be larger than Rsun please?
2, Why the mixing_length_alpha so large, it should be order of unity. I 
checked star_defaults.dek, mixing_length_alpha is set to be 2.

Thank you very much :-)

-- 
Sincerely
Jing

Ph.D candidate at physics.caltech
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